Pogroms : a documentary history / edited by Eugene M. Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avrutin, Eugene M., editor.

Bemporad, Elissa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pogroms--Russia--History--Sources.

Pogroms.

Pogroms--Europe, Eastern--History--Sources.

Jews--Persecutions--Russia--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions--Europe, Eastern--History--Sources.

Antisemitism--Russia--History--Sources.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Europe, Eastern--History--Sources.

Jews--Persecutions.

History.

Eastern Europe.

Russia.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Pogroms: A Documentary History explores the remarkable long history of anti-Jewish violence in the East European borderlands beginning with the pogroms of 1881-1882 in the Russian Empire and concluding in Poland on the eve of World War II. This volume begins with a comprehensive introductory essay on pogroms followed by nine case studies. Organized chronologically, each chapter includes a unique array of archival and published sources, selected and introduced by a scholar expert in the period under investigation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also contain memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. Each chapter explains the origins, timing, and consequences of pogrom violence at various levels of society, as well as the lives, relationships, activities, and interactions of those groups of people that rarely appear in the historical literature. By providing a nuanced analysis of the specific geopolitical context where the violence erupted, each chapter captures the specific nature of the waves of pogroms that broke out in different regions and at different times. Informed by the literature on collective violence and comparative genocide studies, this volume helps reevaluate the complex motivations, policy directives, and reactions of the most powerful decision makers to those officials and their accomplices operating in the provinces. The result is a balanced and accessible guide to the history of anti-Jewish violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Pogroms in Russia's Borderlands, 1881

1884 / Eugene M. Avrutin

doc. 1.1 Pogrom in Smela, Kiev Province [1881]

doc. 1.2 Leaflets Dropped around Kharkov Inviting People to Commit Anti-Jewish Violence [1881]

doc. 1.3 Telegram to the Minister of Internal Affairs from Prince Donbukov, Odessa, May 5, 1881

doc. 1.4 Telegram Sent to the Ministry of the Interior on May 5, 1881, from the Rovno Jewish Community, Volhynia Province

doc. 1.5 Circular Distributed on May 6, 1881, by E. I. Totleben, the Governor-General of Vilna, to His Subordinates

doc. 1.6 Observations Made by a Nameless Doctor [1881 or 1882]

doc. 1.7 Secret Memo by the Deputy Chief of the Gendarme Department in Chernigov Province [1881]

doc. 1.8 Memo Written on June 9, 1881, by the Ekaterinoslav Governor to the Ministry of the Interior

doc. 1.9 The Russo-Jewish Question: A Special Correspondent of the Jewish World [1881]

2. The 1898 Anti-Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia / Daniel Unowsky

doc. 2.1 Pamphlet Widely Disseminated in Western Galicia: Jewish Secrets [1898]

doc. 2.2 Election Campaign Promotion from Wieniec Polski [1898]

doc. 2.3 Report from the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska District Captain [1898]

Documents 2.4 and 2.5 Anti-Jewish Flyers [1898]

doc. 2.6 The Lutcza Indictment [1899]

Documents 2.7 and 2.8 Three Trial Excerpts [1898]

doc. 2.9 Second Stary Sacz Proceeding [1898]

doc. 2.10 Parliamentary Debates on the Anti-Jewish Riots [1898]

3. Kishinev Pogrom / Steven J. Zipperstein

doc. 3.1 On Hayim Nahman Bialik's "City of Killing" [1935]

doc. 3.2 Hayim Nahman Bialik, "City of Killing" [1903]

doc. 3.3 Testimony of Israel Rossman [1903]

doc. 3.4 The Kishinev Pogroms, Jacob Bernstein-Kogan [1946]

doc. 3.5 Solzhenitsyn on the Kishinev Pogrom [2001]

doc. 3.6 Pavel Krushevan's Description of Sordid Jewish Economic Activity [1903]

doc. 3.7 Pogroms and Lynching [1903]

4. 1905: Russia's Encounter with Revolution and Pogroms / Robert Weinberg

doc. 4.1 Government Inquiry Links Pogrom to Civil Unrest [1906]

doc. 4.2 Students, Workers, and Revolutionaries Clash with Soldiers [1906]

doc. 4.3 Calm before the Storm [1906]

doc. 4.4 The Pogrom Begins [1906]

doc. 4.5 Military Commander Describes the Outbreak of Violence [1905]

doc. 4.6 The Western Press Describes the Pogrom [1905]

doc. 4.7 Eyewitness Accounts of the Odessa Pogrom [1906]

doc. 4.8 Government Inquiry Accuses Jews of Inciting the Violence [1906]

doc. 4.9 Government Inquiry Accuses City Governor of Malfeasance [1906]

doc. 4.10 Testimony Given by Witness Teplitskii to Senator Kuzminskii on November 25, 1905

5. Pogroms in World War I Russia / Polly Zavadivker

doc. 5.1 A Jewish Military Doctor's Account from Galicia [1915]

doc. 5.2 S. An-sky Describes the Radivilov Pogrom [1915]

doc. 5.3 S. An-sky Witnesses the Aftermath of the Sokal Pogrom and Flight of Jews from Gorokhov, June 1915

doc. 5.4 Causes of the Anti-German Pogrom in Moscow, May 26

29, 1915

doc. 5.5 Russian Military Pogroms in Kovno, Vilna, and Minsk Provinces [1915]

doc. 5.6 The Rape of Jewish Women during Russian Military Pogroms [1915]

doc. 5.7 A Russian Jewish Politician Accuses the Russian Government of Complicity in the Incitement of Pogroms [1915]

doc. 5.8 A Russian Nurse's Notes from the Front [1915 and 1916]

doc. 5.9 The Kafafov Circular, January 9, 1916

doc. 5.10 The First Jewish Pogrom in Siberia, May 7, 1916

doc. 5.11 A Jewish Soldier Witnesses a Pogrom in Buczacz [1916]

6. Anti-Jewish Violence in the Russian Civil War / Jeffrey Veidlinger

doc. 6.1 The Proskuriv Pogrom, February 15, 1919

7. The Female Dimension of Pogrom Violence, 1917

1921 / Elissa Bemporad

doc. 7.1 Looting and Rape in Pechora [1919]

doc. 7.2 Looting and Rape in Smila [1919]

doc. 7.3 Denikin's Forces Depart from Smila [1919]

doc. 7.4 The Doctors Speak [1919]

doc. 7.5 A Mother and Daughter Understanding [1919]

doc. 7.6 A Writer's Calling [1929]

doc. 7.7 Chronicle of a Dead City [1921]

doc. 7.8 Women as Agents of Violence [1919]

8. Documentary Fiction of the Pogroms of the Civil War / Harriet Murav

doc. 8.1 Itsik Kipnis's Months and Days [1926]

9. Pogroms in Modern Poland, 1918

1946 / Glenn Dynner

doc. 9.1 Police Report about the Incidents Involving Policemen in Krakow on April 16, 1918

doc. 9.2 "The Lemberg Horrors," by Joseph Bendrow [1918]

doc. 9.3 Testimony from the Vilna Pogrom, 1919

doc. 9.4 Report about the Incidents of March 9, 1936, in Przytyk

doc. 9.5 Prohibition against Making Arrests at Fairs, Markets, and the Like Where the Crowd May Prevent Them [1936]

doc. 9.6 The Pogrom in Minsk Mazowiecki [1936]

doc. 9.7 Interpolation of Deputy Dr. Emil Sommerstein after Brest on Bug [Brzesc nad Bugiem] Pogrom, May 13

14, 1937

doc. 9.8 Anticommunist Leaflet: "Paid Russian Stooges, PPR [Polish Workers' Party]" October 1946.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pogroms

ISBN:

9780190060084

0190060085

9780190060091

0190060093

OCLC:

1248600925

Publisher Number:

99990034229